Tie



A. B. CHAUNCEY.

TIE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-17,1920- Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Inventor. Arberf B. Chauncey y M f ALBEE-T'BICHA'UNCEY, OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS.

TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatent'ed Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed. September 17, 1920. Serial No. 410,843.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. GHAUNCEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Revere, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented Improvements in ties such as are used for neckwear and the principal object thereof is to provide a tie of such a construction as will produce novel color effects. 7

A further object of the invention is to provide a tie formed of two pieces of material of different'color in which the knot portion will present one color while the body portion or facing of the tie will present a changeable color effect.-

Another object of the invention is to provide a tie which can be readily put on and taken off by the wearer. This desirably is accomplished by providing a band of elastic material secured at one end to the tie and adapted to encircle the collar of the wearer and having at its ends detachable interengaging members which can be quickly united or separated.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tie having an elastic band provided with de-.

tachable interengaging ends,

Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the body or facing of foraminous material, from which the tie is made, superposed upon a lining having a different color,

Fi 3 is a perspective view of the material lllustrated in Fig. 2 folded along the longitudinal edges, 7

Fig. 4 is a similar view of the material as folded in Fig. 3 when folded again to produce the body or facing of the tie,

Fig. 5 is an illustration of the tie formed from the material folded as in Fig. 4, with a band or knot surrounding the central porl tion of the same and contracting it into the form of a bow, the colors of the body or facing and lining being conventionally illustrated together with the changeable color efiect produced by such construction, and

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the bow shown in Fig. 1 illustrating the band as secured to the bow and provided atits ends with a preferred form of interengaging members;

The tie which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings comprises a bow having wings 1, 2 and a central knot portion 3, the

bow preferably. having a band 4 made of.

elastic material which is connected at one end preferably-to the knot portion 3 of the bow. The ends of the elastic band 4 desirably are provided with interengaging members which may be readily united and released. Any desired form of interengaging members may be employed, a preferred form illustrated herein being a book- 5 secured'to one end of the .bandand adapted to engage an eye 6 secured to the other end .ofthe band.

The preferred form of tie illustrated herein comprises wings so constructed asto produce changeable color effect andia knot portion intermediate of said wings preferably having a different color from that of.

the wings. The knot portion of the tie may stares A .FI

conveniently be formed from the same material as the body of the tie.

In the construction of the tie a body or facing 7 of foraminous material such as knitted or loosely woven fabric, is superposed upon a lining 8 of material of different color so that the color of the lining will show through the material forming the body portion or facing of the tie. Preferably the body portion or facing 7 of the tie is formed of a knitted material having a sheen, such' for example as tricolette, superposed upon a llning of silk, satin, sateen, cambric, or

other suitable material which preferably also has a sheen.

In the construction of the bow tie illustrated in Fig. 1 the longitudinal edges of the facing shown in Fig. 2 are folded inwardly as illustrated in Fig. 3, thusproducing smooth edges 9 and 10 for the wings of the tie. The ends ofthe material thus folded are then folded inwardly" as illustrated in Fig. 4, thus producing smooth and rounded ends 11 and 12for the wings of the tie. A V

knot portion, which preferably isa plain band 13, formed from a material corresponding to the body portion ofthe tie, is then placed around the central portion of the material as folded in. Fig. 4, said 1 0.5 central portion being gathered sufliciently to produce the winged effects illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5. Thus a bow'is produced which pro-- vides a central knot portion having'a color corresponding to the body material of the bow with wings having changeable color effects. W

In the bow shown in Fig. 5 the body portion or facing is illustrated as being of material having a brown color which is superposed upon a lining 141 of blue, these colors being illustrated by the prescribed form of conventional sectional lines, and

the body portion or facing of the tie being broken away in such a manner as to show the lining. The color effect thereby produced is illustrated by the combined .con-

ventional sectional linings 16 of the colors brown and blue to graphically illustrate the changeable color eflects produced. The color effect of the knot 13 is, of course, the

same as the color of the body 15 of the tie and both contrasts and harmonizes with the changeable color effects of the wings of the tie.

It will, therefore be understood that the particular embodiment of the invention disclosed herein is illustrative and not restrictive and that various changes in form and construction may be made within the spirit and scope of the following claims.

Havin thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: i t 7 1. A bow tie having wings comprising an outer facing of foraminous material having lining of material having a different color,-

said facing and lining folded inwardly from the edges and folded symmetrically inwardly from the ends and a knot portion surrounding and embracing the cen-; tral portion of the material thus folded'to produce a winged bow.

r a lining of material differing in color from v 3. A bow tie comprising a rectangular piece of facing material superposed upon a lining of material having a different color, said facing and lining folded inwardly from the edges and folded symmetrically in wardly from the ends and a band of mate rial corresponding to the facing surrounding and embracing the central portion of the material this folded to produce a winged bow.

In testimony'whereof, I have signed my name to this specification. 1

ALBERT B. CHAUNCE Y. 

